# A silver lining to an Obama presidency? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [June 15, 2008, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-silver-lining-to-an-obama-presidency/453006 "2008-06-15T14:28:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![cosmosdan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@cosmosdan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cosmosdan)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-silver-lining-to-an-obama-presidency/453006/41 "2008-06-17T00:52:12Z")
[QUOTE=Shodan] As regards the OP, I tend in the direction of **FriarTed**. Democrats have control of Congress, and if the voters pick chocolate over vanilla this election cycle, they will have the White House again. Last time we picked a smiling incompetent for the Oval Office, we wound up with big problems with Iran, sky-rocketing oil prices, stagflation, and foreign policy advice from children. The silver lining that time was Ronald Reagan four years later. We will probably have to wait an equal amount of time to return to sanity in 2012 - the Congressional elections of 1994 were affected by the brilliant idea of the Contract with America (thank you, Newt) as well as the firecracker string of scandals and lies issuing from the White House starting three days after Slick Willie first infested the White House. [/QUOTE] There is absolutely no comparison to the string of scandals during Clintons 8 years and the Bush presidency. IMO the partisan assholes who decided to focus the nations attention on a BJ rather than address real issues were much more disloyal to the interests of this country. By comparison, the horror show of our currant admin beginng with the lies that got us into this war means that rather than getting fucked in the White House they decided to fuck the whole nation and tragically too many people bent over and said “Promise it won’t hurt” ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2008, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-silver-lining-to-an-obama-presidency/453006/42 "2008-06-19T04:49:33Z")
I really don’t get this thread title. I thought the upcoming Obama presidency is supposed to _be_ the silver lining. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2008, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-silver-lining-to-an-obama-presidency/453006/43 "2008-06-19T04:52:48Z")
[QUOTE=kaylasdad99] I really don’t get this thread title. I thought the upcoming Obama presidency is supposed to _be_ the silver lining. [/QUOTE] Well, we’ve certainly endured many dark clouds at this point. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Them](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/898d66/32.png) [@The\_Them](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Them)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2008, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-silver-lining-to-an-obama-presidency/453006/44 "2008-06-19T05:33:19Z")
**Der Trihs** , I don’t know quite how to find an online cite for this, but I promise it’s true. It’s in my rather disorganized library, but I recall it well, and I’ll vouch for it, except for maybe being off by one or two words in the quote. At a press conference(!) in 1983, David Stockman, Reagan’s budget advisor, said: “The goal of this administration is to raise the public debt so high, that social spending can never recover.” So, yeah, the pubbies have been working on their plan to “starve the beast” for a while now. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2008, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-silver-lining-to-an-obama-presidency/453006/45 "2008-06-19T12:33:47Z")
[QUOTE=The Them] **Der Trihs** , I don’t know quite how to find an online cite for this, but I promise it’s true. It’s in my rather disorganized library, but I recall it well, and I’ll vouch for it, except for maybe being off by one or two words in the quote. At a press conference(!) in 1983, David Stockman, Reagan’s budget advisor, said: “The goal of this administration is to raise the public debt so high, that social spending can never recover.” So, yeah, the pubbies have been working on their plan to “starve the beast” for a while now. [/QUOTE] It doesn’t work that way in Great Debates. Let’s have a cite. Regards, Shodan [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-silver-lining-to-an-obama-presidency/453006.md?page=2)